Thursday Morning Dawg Bites: Suck It Up, You Bunch of Crybabies! Edition
by T Kyle King on Feb 23, 2012 8:48 AM EST
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PrintTechnically, this is a special truncated Thursday morning edition of "Dawg Bites," but, really, I just saw a handful of items I thought warranted attention (read: grousing), so think of this as "Kyle Gets Contrary" in miniature:
I totally don’t get how this is a thing, but, apparently, some people care that Florida and Tennessee may not play on CBS this fall. No, that’s it; there’s nothing more to the story than that. Some folks may just have to change the channel. That’s all. Meanwhile, we’re over here about to lose the oldest rivalry in the league, but, hey, we’ll be sure to cry us a river over you Gator and Vol fans having to move your thumbs to different positions on your remote control, because that’s a national tragedy.
As noted by Senator Blutarsky, those Big Ten whiners are up in arms over something else this week. This time, those snivelling Midwesterners are complaining about “the sham of ‘neutral site’ games in places such as New Orleans and Miami.” All right, look, I know Jim Delany and his coevals aren’t smart enough to count past ten, but this is getting ridiculous. It’s a neutral site if both teams get half the tickets. Last season, Alabama beat LSU in New Orleans, LSU beat Georgia in Atlanta, and Georgia beat Florida in Jacksonville, so quit carping about home field advantage when neither team is playing on its home field. Besides, I have family in South Georgia, and I drive down to visit my relatives every Christmas, so don’t try telling me Yankees don’t drive south for the winter; they do, in droves, and I see tons of them on I-75. They don’t like being up there any better than the rest of us do, so they should thank us for the chance to get the heck out of there. If they want to host home games in December, they need to secede and petition Canada for annexation. Being the tolerant (read: indifferent) sorts that we are, we’d let ‘em go without burning anybody’s home town to the ground.
You know how they say “you can’t coach speed”? Well, evidently, they’re wrong, because Georgia just hired a new speed coach. No, I don’t have any problem with that; it was just newsworthy, and I didn’t want to sound uniformly negative. Feel free to carry on with your day. The weekend is almost upon us, people, and spring practice begins within a month!
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But Kyle
The hallowed tradition of TN-FL being on CBS dates back to the EARLY OMG 1990’s!!!!!!11
Whatever will we do?!?!?!?! Won’t somebody think of the children?!?!?!?!?!
They hit the road doing ninety
Leave them steel mills far behind.
Ain't no good life down at the Ford plant
Three guitars or a life of crime.
by Dawg in Beaumont on Feb 23, 2012 9:19 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
That's right, it dates back to the beginning of Gator football!
(I hate Gator football.)
Editor, Dawg Sports.
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by vineyarddawg on Feb 23, 2012 10:04 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
so that just means that you lost to us 22 times before Florida football even began!
Don’t be a hater. Go Gatah.
(had to stop by for some good-natured ribbing on the eve of the big gymnastics meet – I read that this will be the sixth time in the last seven dual meets between the schools that one of them is ranked #1)
Pretty amazing stat.
In all kinds of weather...
by skigator93 on Feb 23, 2012 11:35 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Hey, we've always credited Florida football with an earlier start than Gator fans acknowledge!
/1904’d
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by T Kyle King on Feb 23, 2012 11:49 PM EST up reply actions 3 recs
UGA gets full credit for that win in 1904
Y’all are 1-0 lifetime against FAC. I believe they were known as the “Fighting Plowmen”
In all kinds of weather...
For the record, the team we played in 1904 was officially named the "University of Florida."
Florida Agricultural College, whose campus was in Lake City, had its name changed in 1903 to “University of Florida.” Then, in 1905, the Buckman Act completely reoganized Florida’s institutions of higher learning. The University of Florida was merged with 3 significantly smaller schools, creating “The University of the State of Florida,” which was shortened 4 years later to “University of Florida.”
When “The University of the State of Florida” first convened its classes in 1905, they used the same facilities and had mostly the same students, faculty, and administrators (including president Andrew Sledd) as the University of Florida in 1904. Now, call me crazy, but that sounds an awful lot like the same institution to me. (The campus was later moved to its current location in 1906.)
Just because your team can try to hide behind a technicality to disown a season in which you went 0-5 and were collectively outscored 225-0 doesn’t mean they will be any more successful than they were at scoring a single point on the field that season.
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by vineyarddawg on Feb 24, 2012 10:26 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Precisely, vineyarddawg.
There’s no plausible argument for the proposition that it wasn’t the same institution, which is why the Tampa sports editor who literally wrote the book on Florida football made it clear that the two institutions (which, as you noted, but as bears emphasizing, shared the same name, student body, and administration) were one and the same. The argument to the contrary may be equated with an argument that the Indianapolis Colts were an expansion franchise having no relationship to the Baltimore Colts.
My argument on why the Gators ought to count the 1904 season is the same as my argument on why we ought to count our losses to Georgia Tech in 1943 and 1944: If you’dve counted it if you’d won, you ought to count it if you lost. Of course, if Georgia had beaten Georgia Tech in 1943 and 1944 (when Georgia’s team was made up of freshmen too young to serve and upperclassmen too infirm to serve, and Georgia Tech’s team was made up of military trainees), the media guide in which those victories were recorded would be written in German, but still. . . .
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by T Kyle King on Feb 24, 2012 12:23 PM EST up reply actions
This is the kind of good natured ribbing that I wish Georgia State fans could engage in
Yes, I’m asking for a fanbase to aspire to a standard set by a Gator.
Yes, that says quite a bit about said fanbase.
The 984 Has Spoken!
by The984 on Feb 24, 2012 12:37 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
The Sherman Armstrong news may be a little premature at this point.
It looks like he is going to be the hire, but I’d wait until the University says something before feeling confident about it.
Here’s a post by 247’s beat guy, Gentry Estes, about the situation.
(Its a public post, so no $$$ required)
Oops! My bad!
All right, since my effort to inject a bit of good news may have been jumping the gun, how about this: Kat Ding is in Sports Illustrated, and Nathan Pasha has been named SEC freshman of the week. Better?
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by T Kyle King on Feb 23, 2012 11:29 AM EST up reply actions
I thought it had gone through as well
But I think it sounds like a good hire, if it goes through. Everyone seems to have been wanting new blood in there, and people that are respected in the S & C industry. This guy seems like both.
Have I told you today how much I'm loving angry old man Kyle?
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by Mr. Sanchez on Feb 23, 2012 9:49 AM EST reply actions 1 recs
Thanks!
Now take your soccer ball and get off my lawn, you little whippersnapper!
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by T Kyle King on Feb 23, 2012 11:29 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Don't make me remind you
how Clemson is no longer a rival.
http://sportsandgrits.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Feb 23, 2012 11:45 AM EST up reply actions 1 recs
We'd snap off a piece of whatever y'all grow down in Gainesville
but I don’t think Bill Cervone would drop the charges for us.
http://sportsandgrits.com/
by Mr. Sanchez on Feb 24, 2012 8:29 AM EST up reply actions 2 recs
He is not just an attorney
But is the State Attorney that serves the county where UF is located and graduated UF Law a few years apart from the defense attorney that frequently represents UF athletes that tend to run afoul of the law.
I HATE ORANGE, and DGNBs
You're cool with heated criticisms of the selective approach . . .
. . . taken by Gainesville law enforcement with Gator players. Do remember, though, that longboard8 is a newcomer who’s asking sincere questions in an effort to learn about his new conference coevals, and be sure shots at Florida don’t come across as shots at longboard8. I think you’re fine, but just be mindful of that sort of thing. Thanks, Dawg2011.
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Sorry TKK
Did not intend any shots at our new SEC brethren; just as always: taking a shot at the jort wearing communists living slightly below the UGA border. I just find it funny that the defense lawyer represented 23 of 24 cases involving Urban’s athletes…I am just a Sci guy, but I find that STRANGE…and welcome to our board longboard…I look forward to kissing my beloved many times when we play at Kyle field
I HATE ORANGE, and DGNBs
That's the way I took it, Dawg2011.
I just wanted to make sure longboard8 took it that way, too. I wouldn’t have mentioned it, but for the fact that you asked. It’s all good.
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You'll soon learn
that Florida athletes have a disturbing tendency to have charges dropped or reduced.
http://sportsandgrits.com/
GA/AU
For some reason the Bubba ‘n Earl story got me thinking about the Pac-12’s scheduling model. I’m sort of surprised that I haven’t seen it brought up here before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pacific-12_Conference#Divisions
Effectively, they create a third “California-only” division just for scheduling to alleviate their cross-division issues while maintaining the two division structure to determine who plays in their CCG. Seems like that would be applicable here with the possible side-effect that either we’d also play ’Bama more often or AU could get their rivalry with Florida back.
The guys over at StingTalk think you're way out of line, sir.
However, making fun of Larry Munson and Uga dying is totally cool. /explativeexplativeexplativedouchebagswordloversexplativeexplativeexplative
In related news, I think Georgia State should replace them as our OOC rival. At the very least we’ll see a more competitive game.
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by Ludakit on Feb 23, 2012 4:31 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Well VaTech lost to JMU on a short week after playing Boise on Labor Day
Maybe the solution instead is to not play on freaking Labor Day.
The 984 Has Spoken!
by The984 on Feb 23, 2012 4:43 PM EST up reply actions 1 recs
Worked well for us in 1982.
Just sayin’.
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Also, Boise State beat Virginia Tech at FedEX Field in Landover, MD.
another game that was pretty much a home game for VA Tech. I suppose though, that I would be open to the NCAA bidding out the BCSNCG to cities as is done similarly for the Final Four and the NFL’s Super Bowl game. But let’s be honest here, it’ll probably just end up in the same facilities the the NFL uses already. New Orleans, Miami, Arizona and the Rose Bowl. At least the majority of the time.
- FOW
by skandrewj62j on Feb 23, 2012 12:11 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
I think it's adorable
That they’re trying to blame realignment for the game not being on CBS. How bout because CBS doesn’t want to show a game between teams that won a combined three conference games that weren’t against each other? That might just have something to do with it.
by RJohn on Feb 23, 2012 12:16 PM EST reply actions 5 recs
I guess the reason
Georgia isn’t on CBS because they haven’t won a national title in the past 30 years.
:)
by Obi_Ugochukwu on Feb 24, 2012 11:00 PM EST up reply actions
We are on CBS, every year, when we play Florida.
I don’t know what your deal is, Obi, but, after the snit-fit you pitched on Twitter, I’m not inclined to give you a leash of any length at all.
You’ve been warned. Act like an adult—-which I know you aren’t, but give it a whirl—-or you’re banned.
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I'll see you.....
don’t try telling me Yankees don’t drive south for the winter; they do, in droves, and I see tons of them on I-75. They don’t like being up there any better than the rest of us do, so they should thank us for the chance to get the heck out of there
the crowd of carpetbaggers on I-75 in the winter and raise you the crowd slack jawed gawkers in Times Square in the summer.
If all of NY were times square I would move immediately. Look straight ahead and move your feet people. NO I DO NOT WANT TICKETS TO A COMEDY SHOW!. GO BACK TO YOUR HOMES!
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by The Quincy Carter of Accountants on Feb 23, 2012 1:22 PM EST reply actions 1 recs
Blame Rudy.
At least in the old days Times Square was more of a sporting event, like throwing Christians to the lions. Now it’s a tourist destination by design: throwing tourists to the Lion King.
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by NCT on Feb 23, 2012 1:48 PM EST up reply actions 4 recs
throwing tourists to the Lion King....
that’s fantastic.
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by The Quincy Carter of Accountants on Feb 23, 2012 6:00 PM EST up reply actions
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